At Large

The year 2020 was shaping up to be a watershed moment in the career of New Jersey-born Brooklyn-based quilt artist Bisa Butler.
In the wake of our global pandemic crisis, Etsy has exploded with coronavirus-related goods: there are nearly 25,000 items under the tag “social distancing.” Whether your needs are more practical or…

This video attempts to answer an age old question: Does art have to be beautiful? See how Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist helps answer that question.

Forget the "idle" pyramids of Egypt and the "useless" temples of Greece, the aqueducts of ancient Rome are the "most marvelous structures in the whole world." So claimed Roman writers…
A celebrated painter in her own time, Thérèse Schwartze later fell into obscurity. Now she is being rediscovered.
Underneath the veneer of classical beauty and harmony, Antonio Canova was a great innovator who modernized sculpture.
One of the most popular museums in the US, the J. Paul Getty Museum averages almost 2 million visitors a year.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was the greatest printmaker of the 18th century. Although he consistently signed his work ‘architetto,’ he is famous for his engravings of the monuments of ancient Rome,…
Banksy shared a new work of art yesterday, showing us what he has been up to while quarantined.
You know Michelangelo had incredible skill, but did you know how dangerous the painting technique he used was?
Have you ever wondered who you are looking at in medieval and Renaissance altarpieces? This video will serve as a primer for identifying saints in art.
For the 96th year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded its coveted grants to the best and brightest artists and scholars in the US and Canada.
Hopper’s paintings of empty coastlines, limitless plains, and rolling hills embody the vastness and psychological complexity of the American landscape.
Watch these performers beautifully recreate Renaissance images to Mozart.
A popular new app is changing the field of digital art by bringing groundbreaking tools to the public on a huge scale.